nether eye:

Or: nether-end , obsolete literary term used by Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400) and others for the vagina . Nether eyebrow / nether-lashes / nether-whiskers , now obsolete, referred to the pubic-hair . G .A. Stevens called it : ' the eye-that-weeps-most-when-best-pleased '. See vagina for synonyms.

QUOTE: C16 ^th Italian satirist Pietro Aretino (1492-1556): ' The whore laughs with one eye / and weeps with the other .'

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